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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—R

Recreant

is one who cries out (French, récrier); alluding to the judicial combats, when the person who wished to give in cried for mercy, and was held a coward and infamous. (See Craven.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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